Career
She has appeared onstage in, among other plays, Blithe Spirit, House of Bernarda Alba and Twelfth Night She was nominated for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Kate in Brian Friel"s Dancing at Lughnasa at the 1992 Tony Awards. She starred as Winnie in Samuel Beckett"s Happy Days on stage and on screen as part of the Beckett on Film project, having already played the role in a 1996 production at The Gate Theatre opposite Barry McGovern. In television, she was a voice artist on the Irish language children"s television series Inis Cúil in 2005, appeared in Hugh Leonard"s British Broadcasting Corporation sitcom Maine Mammy.
More recently, she played Deirdre O Kane"s mother in Bitter Sweet.
Her father Daniel McMenamin was a Teachta Dála for Donegal from 1927 to 1961.